Battle Around Bullecourt Evokes Lasting Fight for Trenches
British and German forces clash east of Bullecourt with heavy bombardment and only a few prisoners taken. Haig notes improved British positions and a minor missing troop count while German optimism grows for a west front breakthrough as reports frame a decisive phase.
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Bullecourt
Field Marshal
Haig
Pronvuille
Germany
Holland
Major Moraht
The
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von Hindenburg
Russia
Koelnische Volkszeitung
Money to Germany
Charles Nagel, trustee for Adolphus tusch estate and former Commerce and Labor secretary, travels to Washington to determine how alien enemy property law affects two bequests to Adolphus Busch’s daughters Eduard Scharrer and Baroness Paul von Gontard. Each daughter owns an eighth share with about $1,000 daily income. Nagel assesses federal law impact on these bequests.
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St. Louis
Charles Nagel
Adolphus Tusch
Commerce and Labor
Washington
Eduard Scharrer
Paul von Gontard
Adolphus Busch
Nagel
Peace Talks End Amid World War I Diplomatic Shifts
Lloyd George announces alignment with President Wilson on peace negotiations. Lord Lansdowne supports Wilson and avoids forcing a new confrontation, describing the situation as a farce without victory.
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Lord Lansdowne
Wilson
Liberty bonds pay first interest today in Treasury release
The Treasury Department announces the first interest payments on Liberty bonds. A $100 bond yields $1.75 for six months at 8 percent for first issue holders. registered holders get checks by mail, coupon holders may collect at banks or post offices. About $85 million will be paid today.
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Washington
Dee
Treasury Department
Sugar Probe Opens With Claims of Sugar Trust Ties
The Hoover food administration faced a Senate subcommittee as Claus Spreckels alleged the food controller aided the sugar trust in managing the national sugar problem. Spreckels defined the trust, cited American Sugar Refining ownership, and warned of over 1.8 million tons of surplus with a world shortage unlikely. He described the sugar division’s formation and the administration’s role.
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Itoover Food Administration
Senate Committee On Manufactures
Claus P. Spreckels
Federal Sugar Refining Company
Sugar Trust
Hoover
Spreckels
George M. Rolph
Sugar
The
Food Administration
California-Hawaii Sugar Refining Company
Speckels
American Sugar Refining Company
Reed
Sugar refining row in English recruiting drive details
Director General of Recruiting in England, three committees with Amer ican Sugar Refining rep, and a price control plan. Spreckels testified the international committee set prices and sanctioned purchases, while Cuban sugar bypassed this system to fetch higher prices abroad. He said refiners shut down plants including Federal, and that a Louisiana deal to obtain 100000 tons of raw sugar was arranged by Rolph Hoover Parker Babst but not by the international committee, with others learning of it only through press reports.
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Great Britain
France
Italy
Germany
Flanders
Lloyd-George
Lord Lansdowne
Spreckels
Food Administration
Spreckles
Louisiana
American Sugar Refining Company
Mr. Rolph
Mr. Hoover
John M. Parker
Earl D. Babst
International Committee
Congress Probes Target Incompetent Officials
Washington lawmakers unite to demand removal of inept officials and insist on thorough probes. Leaders from both parties reject political theater and vow investigations will uncover truth, with the president urged to act on subordinates’ reports.
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Washington
Congress
Inquiry Into All War Work Starts Monday
Congress launches a sweeping probe of Navy administration with Secretary Daniels and Admiral Mayo to testify. House Naval Affairs Committee designates six members to lead the inquiry into shipyards training stations destroyer operations and wartime expenditures. The effort aims to curb submarine threats and consider a three-man supreme war council while denying rumors of a clean bill for the department.
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Admiral Mayo
Washington
Congress
House
Navy
Creel
Senate
Ordnance Department
William Crozier
General Crozier
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Oliver
Alabama
Venable
Mississippi
Hensley
Missouri
Connolly
Kansas
Hickson
New York
Britton
Ilinois
Navy Department
Mayo
Department
Britten
War Council
Hurley
Supreme Council of Defense
Germany
Lenine Orders Russian Evacuations Ahead of Front
The Bolshevik premier Nikolai Lenine orders Russian evacuation east of the Riga front to Lake Pelpus by January 14. This positions German forces within 125 miles of Petrograd as civil prisoners are moved and suspects arrested in Petrograd.
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Basle
Switzerland
Nikolai Lenine
Riga
Lake Pelpus
Petrograd
Countess Pantin
Mme. Kerensky
Kerensky
Smolny Institute
Constitutional Democratic Party
London
Tamanovka
Kaluga
Reuter
Webb export bill passes Senate to aid American exporters
In Washington on December 14 the Webb export bill to legalize combinations of American exporters in promoting foreign trade passed the Senate 51 to 11 after House approval last June. The measure now heads to conference. Paris reports active artillery fighting along the entire front with October 14 dispatches. London notes three heavy attacks on the Cambrai front repulsed, centered near Bullecourt.
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Senate
House
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War Office
London
Cambrai
Bullecourt
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